Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Media Take: Te Mātāwai and the future of the language

Doug Rinckes

Sun, 19 Jun 2016 20:55:18 +1200

Totally agree with this. I got through an NZ education (70s+80s) on the basis of a couple of Maori songs in intermediate and I wish it had been a core part of the curriculum.

Cameron Banks

Sun, 19 Jun 2016 09:47:25 +1200

> nurture the reo.

I assume your word processor treats Maori like mine.

Russell Brown

Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:27:14 +1200

I'm so proud that my lad is learning te reo at high school, currently at NCEA level 2, and also doing kapahaka. Brilliant life skills.

That's great. Te reo should, of course, be part of the primary school curriculum. A lot of schools do it off their own bat, but…

Carol Stewart

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:57:05 +1200

Good on you Bart. Like Tracy, I was steered towards languages at high school, and learned French for three years, which I've taken up again more recently at the Alliance Francaise. It's been useful for travelling around the Pacific – I worked on an island in Vanuatu where only Bislama…

Bart Janssen

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:46:32 +1200

I'm crap at languages, mostly because I can never gather the will to spend the necessary time, and partly some natural ineptitude, my high school French teacher will attest to that.

So it was with some disappointment that I heard a Discovery podcast recently about bilingualism and it's positive impacts…

TracyMac

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 02:12:46 +1200

All us Pakeha should know more of Te Reo – most of us would struggle to reach the standard of "broken phrases" that many of us manage to acquire for travelling to non-English-speaking countries, much less anything else.

I was steered towards languages at college, but that explicitly did not…

Jeanette King

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:12:50 +1200

Tēnā koe Russell, kōrua ko Toi. Pai rawa tēnei kōrero. Loved hearing from Willie, Waihoroi, Leonie and Jennifer. Loved Willie's passion for te reo and advocacy. I was/am sceptical about the new Te Mātāwai structure but if Willie's kōrero is anything to go by I am very heartened. He obviously…

Sacha

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:26:09 +1200

The traditional enculturated grounding in mutual respect carried the day. Imagine the equivalent Pākehā conversation ..

Russell Brown

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:48:23 +1200

Brilliant korero, thanks.

Yeah, it was. And I went into it not quite sure how it was going to go.

Sacha

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:37:57 +1200

Brilliant korero, thanks.

Public Address

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:37:57 +1200

Discussion from blog post.